MFL

MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES

At Beck, we teach Spanish as our chosen Modern Foreign Language. We have a specialist Spanish teacher who works alongside our teachers to teach Spanish in Key Stage 2. This ensures that all pupils receive high quality and consistent teaching allowing them to be successful language learners.

We want our pupils to be able to use and apply their language skills in the future and to be able to gain an understanding of other languages and cultures, appreciating similarities and differences. We aim for our pupils to be able to use and apply basic conversational Spanish when introducing themselves and giving opinions about a range of things such as food and drink, favourite colour, favourite day and hobbies. In addition to this, we also aim for our pupils to learn some basic grammatical conventions about word order at sentence and paragraph level, gender, singular/plural as well as nouns, verbs and adjectives. We ensure that pupils are taught to apply their skills in both oral and written form. Pupils will also have opportunities to access bilingual Spanish/English dictionaries throughout Key Stage 2. We believe that learning about the culture, traditions and geography of Spanish speaking countries is as important as the actual language learning therefore, pupils will develop and build on their intercultural understanding alongside their language learning.